Rime Moths and Salamanders
Not everything in the Stillness is dead: Rime Moths and Salamanders wake by a Thaw Lantern. Read a Rime Moth or a Salamander with the Loupe.
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rime_mothorsalamander - Notes: The Stillness — 2
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Thaw Lantern
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Guard your Thaw Lantern from Rime Moths. These moths of hoarfrost hang in the air of the Stillness, frozen in flight, and the warmth of a lit lantern wakes them from twenty-four steps away: a moth settles on the lantern and drinks its store — three moths drink a shard's minute in ten seconds, and the circle freezes. One that has drunk glows warm inside. It is fragile: strike it down near the lantern, and the warmth goes back into it. It sometimes drops a Still Grain.
The Salamander, the fire lizard of the alchemists, is the lantern's friend. In the Halted Blaze it stilled together with the fire; in a lantern's circle it thaws, lies down beside it and breathes into it — the lantern burns longer — and it snaps up Rime Moths. Having given a minute of warmth, it rests for ten minutes. Outside the circle it stills again; in the Thawed it lives free.